Updates by EmailTwelve Good Netflix Watch Now Offerings
Since January, Netflix has been offering its “Watch Now” service which gives subscribers one hour of streaming movie viewing for each dollar paid in subscription fees. While I’ve always thought that the option was a good idea, I was never able to run it on the ancient 1 Ghz box DVR that I have connected to my TV.
This week, I did a test installation of the latest version of Watch Now. The software only runs in Internet Explorer, and I did have to upgrade from IE6 to IE7 to conserve the last few drops of my paltry 384Mb of RAM, but I’m finally able to watch most movies and shows smoothly on my TV.
Netflix claims to have over 3,000 movies available, so the only hurdle left was sifting through the piles of typical second rate on-demand content to find something worth watching. Up to the challenge, #1GF! and I not only found movies worth watching, but we have already burned half of our allotted viewing time in the last week alone.
To save you a little time, here are ten that you don’t have to hunt down to enjoy. Click the links and get streaming!
If you’re logged into Netflix, these links will take you directly to the watch now pages for the movies. If you’re not logged in or not a member, they won’t do anything.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Wow, of the movies that I’ve heard of and seen, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was a nice surprise to see in this list.
I became obsessed with that movie when I heard “Smoke Two Joints” by Sublime and was misinformed that the intro to the song was a sound clip from Reefer Madness. I went and bought Reefer Madness and suffered through that crazy movie and didn’t hear that line once.
I refined my google ninja skills and discovered that it was in fact from BVDs. The problem was that you could only get it on VHS and you were lucky to find it on eBay.
One day a few months ago it came on IFC and I recorded it. It was a pretty crazy film, but I’m glad I got to hear the intro to “Smoke Two Joints”
If I had a few bucks to spare a month, I’d sign up for Netflix, but as it is, I don’t have the time to benefit from it all that much.
Plus I’d be out of luck on the “Watch Now” thing since my computer has only got a 800mHz processor.
(Sometimes I feel like I’m writing a blog post when I post comments. That’s bad, right?)
July 10th, 2007 at 8:02 am
You know, I searched for it on a whim and was surprised to find it in their offerings, so I had to include it. It’s mental. I have the movie on VHS, but VHS quality is usually so bad that I rarely bother watching it. And because DVD is now the standard, it’s an impossible movie to share.
Now if they only add Reefer Madness and C.H.U.D.
And let it be known that long comments are the best, not the worst.
July 10th, 2007 at 8:32 am
I don’t know if I still have Reefer Madness or if I gave it to a friend, but if I can find it, I’ll see about sending it to you if you’d like. (It’s on DVD)
July 10th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
HA! Thanks, but I’m ashamed to admit that I have both Reefer Madness and C.H.U.D. and never watch them.